Posts tagged - lino carving

Posted on October 29th, 2014

Here’s the second of my latest bird linocuts, featuring one of my favourite birds (and very rare in NZ), the beautiful kotuku, or white heron. This white heron carries a banner which I imagine the giver of the card will write their own message in – “Merry Christmas”, perhaps, or even “I love you”. There […]

Posted on February 27th, 2014

I’ve finished the second lino block of my ‘In Flight’ series. This one features the tui, an iconic endemic New Zealand bird. Tui are a black bird with a prominent white tuft at their chin and an incredible sheen to their feathers, something that I can’t really show in a black and white print. I’ll […]

Posted on February 20th, 2014

This week I took an off-cut from one of my large lino blocks and carved this wee welcome swallow design into it. It’s based on a design I’ve used before, but I developed it into a set of three as I intend to repeat the print for use on fabric and maybe some small cards. […]